Unit 4 review—key things to study for MC test AP US History Unit 4 review—key things to study for MC test

Antebellum political issues Elections of 1824, 1828, 1832, 1836, 1840 Jacksonian democracy Corrupt bargain Spoils system Tariff and nullification crisis of 1832 Force Act Maysville Road veto Jackson’s distrust of big government projects Cherokees and the Trail of Tears Worcester v. Georgia Whigs Supreme Court cases—Gibbons v. Ogden, Dartmouth v. Woodward (going back to 1819) Federal right to control interstate commerce Gag rule, 1836

Antebellum economic issues Henry Clay’s American System Bank crisis—death of the 2nd National Bank Specie circular Depression of 1837 Very early factories=water power Industrial Revolution Interchangeable parts Lowell factory system Inventions (i.e. cotton gin, plow, telegraph) and who invented them Impact of industrialization on North, South, and West Move from unmarried women to Irish immigrants as factory workers Transportation—turnpikes (National Road), canals, railroads, steamships

Antebellum social issues Immigration from Ireland and Germany Know Nothing Party and nativism Deism Religious revivalism, 2nd Great Awakening Burned over district Mormons and other groups Utopian communities Reformers—mainly women Various reforms, i.e. temperance, education, antislavery, women’s rights Transcendentalism—Emerson and Thoreau Major authors—Poe, Hawthorne, Irving, etc. Slavery and its defenders American Colonization Society Experiences of free blacks